Peaceful Journey | A Path Toward Wellness and Joy

The prayer of St. Francis of Assisi is used as a centering prayer of energy healing practitioners from several modalities. The prayer is:

 

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace;

Where there is hatred, let me sow Love;

Where there is injury, let me sow Pardon;

Where there is doubt, let me sow Faith;

Where there is despair, let me sow Hope;

Where there is darkness, let me sow Light;

And where there is sadness, let me sow Joy.

 

O Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek

To be consoled, as to console;

To be understood, as to understand;

To be loved, as to love.

 

For it is in giving that we receive;

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.  Amen.

–St. Francis of Assisi

 

This prayer is asking that we receive help in giving up our own intentions, our own self-centered will. Instead we ask that we look to where we can bring to others the gifts of God. We ask to bring God’s Peace, Love, Pardon, Faith, Hope, Light and Joy to others where it is needed. We ask to help others rather than wait to receive help ourselves. 

This is a basic tenent of energy healing, that the practitioner remove their own will from the picture, and let the highest need and good of the client determine how the healing is accomplished.

A deeper look at the prayer reveals that whatever gift we wish to receive, we must give it first. If we want love, we must give love first. If we want hope or joy or any of God’s other gifts and blessings, we must give them first.

In the giving of these gifts, we take a step toward receiving them ourselves. How do you feel when you give joy – joyful?  How do you feel when you give faith – a bit larger in faith yourself?

Cultivating the traits you want to have, by giving that gift to others, by embodying that trait, helps to bring it to you. That is how you can gain it.  That is the secret of the law of attraction. You need to walk into a new emotional trait, wear it and give it to others, in order to receive it.

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